BrendanS
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PBO Safety Weekend at RNLI HQ
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LadyInBed
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£190 per person or £350 for couples sharing a room
Bed and breakfast also available on 11 March – £55 per person and £65 for couples sharing room
How much if you stay on your own boat in Poole marina?
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Bed and breakfast also available on 11 March – £55 per person and £65 for couples sharing room
How much if you stay on your own boat in Poole marina?
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Peppermint
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Re: Do I detect
Travel Agency tendencies at IPC. Is PBO going to do the short breaks and YM the longhaul market.
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Travel Agency tendencies at IPC. Is PBO going to do the short breaks and YM the longhaul market.
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kimhollamby
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Rumbled...
...ybw is partnering with Rutan and Branson to offer space flights...research among forum users suggested it would be a good brand fit /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
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...ybw is partnering with Rutan and Branson to offer space flights...research among forum users suggested it would be a good brand fit /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
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Peppermint
Well-Known Member
Re: Good Plan
Classic Boat could link with Saga
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Classic Boat could link with Saga
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Robin
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For those prices it should be in somewhere sunny and include the flights. How many stars does their B& B have I wonder?
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Peter_Chennell
Active Member
I would say this, wouldn’t I?
This is not a Sea Survival course, it is a weekend devoted to Sea Safety, and it is aimed specifically at the recreational boat owner. There is a lot happening over two days. We are going to do a “rescue scenario” (something we have done with astonishing success with groups of divers) with a Coastguard, Lifeboat Cox’n, helicopter pilot and casualty acting out a rescue event. The audience understands some of the difficulties involved (e.g. casualty gets fretful because the coastguard doesn’t respond, CG is trying to make contact another way because the casualty is in a VHF shadow) – it becomes very real indeed. This is all together, and then we split into groups for more personal attention, with each group led by RNLI Sea Safety people. A cox’n will show how to rig a tow on a yacht and powerboat (hands–on, real boats), actually letting off flares, having a good look at lifejacket maintenance and use, a ‘copter will turn up and do a hi-line, a hands-on look at MOB recovery, and a chance to see what a liferaft looks like, and if you want to, to try and board one afloat in our stunning new wave pool. We are not going to harp on, like all the stuff we do it will be friendly and relevant.
Plus a chance to experience our new SAR simulator, which is a Severn Class interior so real one experienced crewman claimed to be feeling a bit queasy, plus a chance to look at several lifeboats alongside.
The dinner in the evening will have a Cox’n telling of some of his experiences, sad, serious, funny, and of course the chance to mix with RNLI Sea Safety staff, volunteers, Coastguards, Helicopter pilots and your fellow forumites. You may even find chuns in the bar; you might get him to buy you a drink.
We are hoping that particularly husband and wife boaters will want to come as it is all very pertinent to that kind of boating, Bearing in mind there is nothing like this, and put into context I hope it will be viewed as good value even without the sun!
Happy to provide more info if you contact me.
Trusting this shameless plug will not cause Kim to wield his axe!
Best regards
<hr width=100% size=1>Peter Chennell
Sea Safety Manager - RNLI
This is not a Sea Survival course, it is a weekend devoted to Sea Safety, and it is aimed specifically at the recreational boat owner. There is a lot happening over two days. We are going to do a “rescue scenario” (something we have done with astonishing success with groups of divers) with a Coastguard, Lifeboat Cox’n, helicopter pilot and casualty acting out a rescue event. The audience understands some of the difficulties involved (e.g. casualty gets fretful because the coastguard doesn’t respond, CG is trying to make contact another way because the casualty is in a VHF shadow) – it becomes very real indeed. This is all together, and then we split into groups for more personal attention, with each group led by RNLI Sea Safety people. A cox’n will show how to rig a tow on a yacht and powerboat (hands–on, real boats), actually letting off flares, having a good look at lifejacket maintenance and use, a ‘copter will turn up and do a hi-line, a hands-on look at MOB recovery, and a chance to see what a liferaft looks like, and if you want to, to try and board one afloat in our stunning new wave pool. We are not going to harp on, like all the stuff we do it will be friendly and relevant.
Plus a chance to experience our new SAR simulator, which is a Severn Class interior so real one experienced crewman claimed to be feeling a bit queasy, plus a chance to look at several lifeboats alongside.
The dinner in the evening will have a Cox’n telling of some of his experiences, sad, serious, funny, and of course the chance to mix with RNLI Sea Safety staff, volunteers, Coastguards, Helicopter pilots and your fellow forumites. You may even find chuns in the bar; you might get him to buy you a drink.
We are hoping that particularly husband and wife boaters will want to come as it is all very pertinent to that kind of boating, Bearing in mind there is nothing like this, and put into context I hope it will be viewed as good value even without the sun!
Happy to provide more info if you contact me.
Trusting this shameless plug will not cause Kim to wield his axe!
Best regards
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Sea Safety Manager - RNLI
Peter_Chennell
Active Member
I forgot to mention...
...that as well as RNLI Sea Safety staff, volunteers, Coastguards, Helicopter pilots and your fellow forumites, there will also, of course, be the PBO team there.
If that doesn't make you want to come, I despair!
<hr width=100% size=1>Peter Chennell
Sea Safety Manager - RNLI
...that as well as RNLI Sea Safety staff, volunteers, Coastguards, Helicopter pilots and your fellow forumites, there will also, of course, be the PBO team there.
If that doesn't make you want to come, I despair!
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Sea Safety Manager - RNLI
Robin
Well-Known Member
Hi Peter
Haven't seen you and M for ages, I thought you might have drifted back east by now.
I don't doubt for one moment that the weekend will be excellent as the RNLI training is undoubtedly the best there is, no argument and 100% support for a truly wonderful organisation.
My rather flippant comment though had some reason to it because cost is a factor like it or not and it is why some people for example do not carry liferafts, the price of something that you hope never to use. The price of 'safety' too is higher in percentage terms to the new boaters starting out with something small, those of us longer in the tooth with bigger boats probably have more disposable income, yet often the biggest need is for the smaller vessel owner??
Best regards
Robin
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Haven't seen you and M for ages, I thought you might have drifted back east by now.
I don't doubt for one moment that the weekend will be excellent as the RNLI training is undoubtedly the best there is, no argument and 100% support for a truly wonderful organisation.
My rather flippant comment though had some reason to it because cost is a factor like it or not and it is why some people for example do not carry liferafts, the price of something that you hope never to use. The price of 'safety' too is higher in percentage terms to the new boaters starting out with something small, those of us longer in the tooth with bigger boats probably have more disposable income, yet often the biggest need is for the smaller vessel owner??
Best regards
Robin
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Robin
Well-Known Member
Re: I forgot to mention...
OK a PS then!
Do we get a discount seeing as we could walk there and stay at home?
I am just joking, we will almost certainly be in the USA then for our regular visit to the outlaws so will not be available anyway.
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OK a PS then!
Do we get a discount seeing as we could walk there and stay at home?
I am just joking, we will almost certainly be in the USA then for our regular visit to the outlaws so will not be available anyway.
Robin /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
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Peter_Chennell
Active Member
Hi, Robin
No, we love it in the West Country - the drive is worth it.
Thanks for your endorsement. You make a good point about the cost, we've worked very hard at keeping it to an acceptable level. I know it will be OK for some, not for others. Amazingly, because it takes place at the weekend, staff costs are an issue - not for the Sea Safety team, who tend to do weekends anyway, but for people like the Pool lifeguards and the Simulator team. There is a fair cost in getting our colleagues here too, many of them volunteer for the fun it will be, but they have to be accomodated. I think it is worth it as they will make the event. IMHO, of course.
You are also right about the safety need being for the less experienced (doesn't neccessarily equate to boat size these days), and this often means people carefully managing the cost of their boating. Like all 'insurance', it is a bind, until the day you need it. What we preach, and hope to show in March, is that safety isn't always cost, and there are ways of boating more safely. It is about knowing the options - how you handle them is down to the individual.
Give our love to Theresa.
<hr width=100% size=1>Peter Chennell
Sea Safety Manager - RNLI
No, we love it in the West Country - the drive is worth it.
Thanks for your endorsement. You make a good point about the cost, we've worked very hard at keeping it to an acceptable level. I know it will be OK for some, not for others. Amazingly, because it takes place at the weekend, staff costs are an issue - not for the Sea Safety team, who tend to do weekends anyway, but for people like the Pool lifeguards and the Simulator team. There is a fair cost in getting our colleagues here too, many of them volunteer for the fun it will be, but they have to be accomodated. I think it is worth it as they will make the event. IMHO, of course.
You are also right about the safety need being for the less experienced (doesn't neccessarily equate to boat size these days), and this often means people carefully managing the cost of their boating. Like all 'insurance', it is a bind, until the day you need it. What we preach, and hope to show in March, is that safety isn't always cost, and there are ways of boating more safely. It is about knowing the options - how you handle them is down to the individual.
Give our love to Theresa.
<hr width=100% size=1>Peter Chennell
Sea Safety Manager - RNLI
Peter_Chennell
Active Member
Re: I forgot to mention...
Like your P.S.!!
We worry about this. As you'd expect, our first objective is to fill the College, so that the event is viable. If it were full, then if you were to hypothetically to ask me, I'm sure we could come to some arrangement. You wouldn't want to miss the dinner though.
I guess this reply is really aimed at other Poole. locals who may be having the same thoughts.
Sorry you will miss it - at this very early stage the level of interest is high - let us hope it leads to another one.
<hr width=100% size=1>Peter Chennell
Sea Safety Manager - RNLI
Like your P.S.!!
We worry about this. As you'd expect, our first objective is to fill the College, so that the event is viable. If it were full, then if you were to hypothetically to ask me, I'm sure we could come to some arrangement. You wouldn't want to miss the dinner though.
I guess this reply is really aimed at other Poole. locals who may be having the same thoughts.
Sorry you will miss it - at this very early stage the level of interest is high - let us hope it leads to another one.
<hr width=100% size=1>Peter Chennell
Sea Safety Manager - RNLI